From the Diary of TKX-36729

Day 45: My unit has been transferred from the ice planet Hoth to the cut-pile carpeting planet Blayvin, in a vain attempt to locate a Rebel stronghold. Alas, after many fruitless weeks of searching, I fear I must return to Lord Vader empty-handed. Also, RQG-49910 was eaten by a giant space kitten, which really sucked.

I have never figured out how to send a pic or video to this site, but I ran into this adorable interspecies snorgling video on YouTube, and it blew me away. The dove is bowing, head cuddling, and cooing to wake up a sleeping cat (obviously they are friends). The cat doesn’t want to wake up, so he gently grabs the dove and mouths him a bit, but the dove keeps trying to get the cat to respond:

How many views is OK? What is the limit? I have watched this dove -n- cat video 4 times in a row (5, if you count having made the family come watch). Isn’t that a bit obsessive?! I think I might need an intervention or something, or to be patted on the head and told that I am perfectly within the normal parameters -at least in CO world!

Ok, ok…I’m going to post this and watch it JUST ONCE MORE and I’m done. What are you all looking at?!! I can quit whenever I like! It’s not an addiction! YOU’RE the one with a problem. Me? I’m just fine with my dove -n- cat video!

I have owned a ringnecked dove. Yes, they do “laugh”. As amusing as it sounds, after hours you may start referring to it as a wring neck dove. Anyhoos. That is a boy dove and it’s behaving like the kitteh is it’s girlfriend!

That’s ok MB, there’s now a wing at box-hab for people in your situation… Complete with monitors playing nothing but videos of nuns bowling while the elevator music version of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” plays in the background. 😉

Well. Currently, my cat is totally freaking out. I think he’s high or something. Really, he seems to have lost his mind and thinks that everything in the house needs to be attacked. Including my hair and my feet.

@ Saffron: BWA ha & also, ha!!! 🙂
one of the funniest “visuals” that I’ve *read* on CO.
Also relevant: did you see two recent CO posts which are tangential here? Kitteh dee-jaying on a vinyl turntable; and also Beatnik Kitteh (not the actual headline on the post, but you’ll recognize it when you find it), for whom the storyline was about him trying to “school” a cd-salesman, about hip Beat vinyl recordings ….he has a cool beret or knit cap of some type on his head and I’m pretty sure a pair of standard-issue Nerdy Spectacles.

Both within the past 7 days of posts; if you didn’t see them already …. Enjoy

…then my other cat composed his new beatnik poem "Meow!"
Here is an excerpt…

I saw the best noms of my generation destroyed by fillers, powdered cellulose,
dragging themselves through my kibble bowl at dawn when I am looking for a tasty snack,
Chowder-headed hoomins manufacturing this newfangled chemical connection
to the floofy dynamo in that is the hungry kitteh at the end of the night,
who mysteriously and fuzzy-wuzzily and golden-eyed and high barfed
up the non-nom noms in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating right where the hoomin would step in it…

I just wish I knew how to send an image or video to CO. I used to find a link for it on the front page, but I don’t see one now. Nevertheless, even when the link was there, I couldn’t make the “send” work when I tried to send something to CO.

oh — well — if you’ll excuse my pulling out my OWN Nerdy Spectacles and trying to be Little Miss Helpful —
There are kinda two paths to that destiny.
1: up at the very top of every CO screen you load up, is a little area which says “submeeshons”. That’s Meg-speak and when you click there, an email form to copy / paste an item and also write some description, will load onto your screen. However I find that some computers will see that form, let you fill it out but then my computer doesn’t know how to function with that email form.

2: You can also open up that tab, CUT & PASTE the correct address for submissions (separate from other divisions of the CO Gub’ment) and just use an email form of your own personal email system ….

If it’s of any consolation to you, my Personal Motto when attempting NOT to apply a sledgehammer to all computers in sight, is: